LA’s summer concert venue has suffered a week-long cancellation by the Simon Bolivar Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel. It is reliablly reported, and not officially denied, that they were refused visas. The orchestra is a propaganda […]
The inaugural Cbina-UK Cultural Exchange Programme arrived at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Friday lunchtime, July 18. .The programme brings together musicians from Birmingham (where Artistic Director Di Xiao is a Piano Professor) and its sister cites. […]
There is a nationwide decline in organists and to try and stem this the Royal College of Organists (RCO) is devoting 2025 to its Play the Organ campaign, aiming not just to increase the number of people […]
LinkedIn informs me that 92 people have clicked ‘apply’ for the job of Reporter, Classical Music and Dance, posted on the site a week ago. What’s involved? The Culture desk is looking for a reporter […]
Musicians of the Baltimore Symphony have posted a memorial notice for Mary Woehr, who has died of cancer at the age of 72: It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of […]
We have been apprised of the passing of the Belgian pianist Frans Brouw, longest living prize-winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition. In 1952, Frans came fourth. The winner was Leon Fleisher. Frans migrated to Canada […]
Michelle Agyemang, aged 19, saved England at the World Cup by equalising in the last two minutes of normal time. To keep a level head, she plays piano. Michelle tells the FA website: ‘I have […]
Message received: Seventeen years after its last appearance in 2008, the Filarmonica della Scala returns to Asia from 17 to 28 September for a tour under the leadership of Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Emeritus of the […]
Principal viola of the Israel Philharmonic for the past 40 years, Miriam Hartman Beazley was serenaded out this week in traditional fashion, with one odd note. She was allowed to take away the only chair […]
Following upon the removal of Zachary Woolfe as chief critic, the jittery paper has reassigned itsnews corespondent for classical and dance, Javier Hernández, to … Tokyo, where he will be bureau chief. Hernández served a […]
